*Controlled Drugs total include drug related investigations and seizures

2017 Quarterly Comparison

Crime Type

2017Q1 Total

2017 Q2 Total

+/-Difference

% Change Q4- Q1

Crimes Against Persons

54

46

-8

-15%

Property Crime

164

173

9

5%

Criminal Code - Other

42

71

29

69%

Controlled Drugs *

11

12

1

9%

Police Attended Collisions

37

47

10

27%

Impaired Drivers

12

16

4

33%

Year over Year - Yield to Date Comparison

Crime Type

2016 YTD

2017YTD

+/-Difference

% Change YTD

Crimes Against Persons

91

96

5

5%

Property Crime

433

336

-97

-22%

Criminal Code - Other

144

113

-31

-22%

Controlled Drugs *

22

-22

-100%

Police Attended Collisions

131

84

-47

-36%

Impaired Drivers

23

28

5

22%

Table 2 depicts the five year trends in Pitt Meadows throughout the three major crime categories. Persons crimes are seeing a slight increase over 2016. Property crime and Other CC crime categories are at the lowest rates since prior to 2012.

Table 3 demonstrates the comparison between quarters to date in 2017.

Table 4 displays the distribution of Criminal Code Offences within the second quarter of 2017. Property crime represents 61% of the total Criminal Code offences.

Detailed Statistical Crime Summaries by Category

Criminal Code Offences The overall cumulative distribution of Criminal Code offences across the major crime categories experienced a 16% decrease in 2017 Q1 as compared to the same period of 2016.

Crime Against PersonsCrime Against Persons represented 12% of total Criminal Code offences in 2017 Q1. Offences within this category that experience an increase over 2016 Q1 are Domestic Violence (+11), Harassing/Obscene Phone Calls (+3) and Sex Offences (+1). There has been a 42% (+16) increase in Persons Crimes when comparing 2016 Q1 with 2017 Q1. The entire Lower Mainland has continued to experience an increase in this category.

Property CrimeProperty Crime represented 61% of total Criminal Code offences in 2017 Q1. There has been a 21% (-43) decrease in Property Crime when comparing 2016 Q1 with 2017 Q1.

Other Criminal Code OffenceOther Criminal Code offences represented 15% of total Criminal Code offences in 2017 Q1, trending down 34% over the same period of 2016. Cause Disturbance continues to be the most common crime type in this category.

Controlled Substances Drug related offences have remained stable year over year in the first quarter with no increase or decrease in the category.

TrafficThere were a total of 37 collisions in 2017 Q1 resulting in a 38% decrease over the same period in 2016. This includes 0 fatal collisions, 10 non-fatal injury collisions and 27 damage collisions.

Calls for Service

Year to date, members have responded to the following top ten public reports to police. These categories are generalized by dispatch and are broad in nature.

Top 10 Public Reports to Police

Rank

Type of Service Call

Number of Calls

1

Theft

76

2

Traffic Incident

69

3

Suspicious Circumstances

56

4

Alarm

54

5

Property

49

6

Suspicious Person

47

7

Impaired Driving

47

8

Assist Police/Fire/EHS

46

9

Domestic in Progress

38

10

Hazardous Situation

29

Data Qualifiers

The summarized offence statistical data in the following report is derived from the RCMP PRIME - BC Provincial Occurrence Code Table (UCR) and differs from data provided up to June 6, 2006, in the Operational Statistics Reporting System (OSR) within the Police Information Retrieval System (PIRS). As a result, scoring rules and occurrence codes have been modified and will not accurately reflect changes when comparing UCR and OSR data.

The summarized data included in this report represent actual offences only (i.e.: those incidents which upon preliminary investigation have been deemed to have occurred or been attempted) Incidents of crime that were reported but could not be substantiated when followed up by the police are considered to be unfounded and are subtracted from the number of reported offences to produce the number of actual offences. This data also does not indicate or infer the number of charges laid, prosecutions conducted, informations sworn, or convictions obtained.

Data contained in this report is also based on accumulated-to-date information. The data presented here may vary from previously produced reports and numbers may continue to change due to the dynamic nature of offences being reported and cleared.

The crime data contained within this report (i.e.: number of offences) utilizes the UCR Survey to collect aggregate data on the incidence of crime. The UCR Survey uses the most serious incident rule when compiling police-reported crime data. The MSO rule stipulates that where a single criminal incident contains a number of violations of the law, then only the most serious one is recorded for UCR purposes. As a result, the total number of UCR offences does not represent the total of all crime reported by police (i.e.: the UCR Survey tends to underestimate the true incidence of relatively less serious crimes)

For the purposes of this report, offences have been divided into 5 major categories that include Crimes Against Persons Offences Against Property and Other Criminal Code offences. Offences under the Controlled Drugs & Substances Act have been included but not other federal statutes such as the Customs Act or the Canada Shipping Act. The statistical summary also includes Traffic collisions and impaired investigations but does not include municipal traffic infractions or other by-law infractions.